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The Propaganda Battlefield: Militants Abroad, Conspiracy Theorists At Home

June 3, 2012

“The media now knows that “militant” is a term of official propaganda, yet still use it for America’s drone victims.”– Glenn Greenwald,“Deliberate media propaganda,” June 2, 2012.

People who die at the hands of Washington’s monstrous war machine are declared,“militants,” while those who expose this gigantic machine’s dark underbelly are labeled,“conspiracy theorists.”

The heroic Glenn Greenwald says that the term,“militant,” is used by U.S. government officials and their surrogate media to mask the innocence of their victims, whitewash their crimes, and crush public debate about the futility and morality of U.S. drone strikes. Greenwald writes in his article,“Deliberate media propaganda”:

“How is it possible to have any informed democratic debate over a policy about which the U.S. media relentlessly propagandizes this way? If drone strikes kill nobody other than “militants,” then very few people will even think about opposing them (and that’s independent of the fact that the word “militant” is a wildly ambiguous term — militant about what?— though it is clearly designed (when combined with “Pakistan”) to evoke images of those who attacked the World Trade Center). Debate-suppression is not just the effect but the intent of this propaganda: like all propaganda, it is designed to deceive the citizenry in order to compel acquiescence to government conduct.”

The real purpose of U.S. drone strikes in countries like Yemen and Pakistan is to provoke anti-American extremism, bolster Al-Qaeda’s ranks, and perpetuate the war on terror.

The crooks in Washington will also use drones against Americans, not only to terrorize the American people and keep American society in a state of endless fear, but to turn Americans against the state and then brand them as domestic terrorists for fighting back. Then they will order their brainwashed “American heroes” in military uniform to kill American “domestic terrorists,” and “conspiracy theorists.” This is the plan. Murder and terror are bread and butter for the terrorist-bankster state in Washington...

<quoted text>The rightwingers keep saying it's about the economy; but, when every topic becomes about womens rights to abortion and gay marriage, you can see that those two things are their driving issues.What does public education have to do with abortion rights?Ever see Jesus Camp?

Jesus Camp could have been a horror film.

It's just carol being carol. She has no understanding of the economy, just repeats stuff she has heard and can't get it straight. Leaves her with Religious Education, and Abortion to talk about. Now she's combining them together. Saves posts.

Steve Smith, a white nationalist with a violent past, was elected to the Republican Party committee for a county in northeastern Pennsylvania.Smith, who is listed as the state chairman of the white nationalist group American Third Position, proudly shared a photo of the certificate commemorating his election on the website, White World News.

Where'd you dig this up, the Huf Po?

Hypocrite.

Someone like you here - a loon on the left has openly displayed racism, yet you only post propoganda crap like this while saying nothing about the racist, Sonicfilter right here.

<quoted text>I don't think a Libertarian candidate can get elected; although their numbers are growing. A significant number of young people are Ron Paul supporters; it's the antiwar message; you can't blame them, they're being used as cannon fodder by the war mongers.There are many valuable points in the Libertarian platform; however many are extreme and probably wouldn't appeal to the masses.

The country is definitely becoming war weary. But isolationism isn't to our benefit in this volatile world.

By the way, would Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton and Obama be the war mongers you're referring to?

<quoted text>Jesus Camp could have been a horror film.It's just carol being carol. She has no understanding of the economy, just repeats stuff she has heard and can't get it straight. Leaves her with Religious Education, and Abortion to talk about. Now she's combining them together. Saves posts.

Like you are smarter than Carol? No. You have no room to talk, Moonbat.

<quoted text>Jesus Camp could have been a horror film.It's just carol being carol. She has no understanding of the economy, just repeats stuff she has heard and can't get it straight. Leaves her with Religious Education, and Abortion to talk about. Now she's combining them together. Saves posts.

Jesus Camp was the usual Hollyweird liberal spin of reality that doesn't exist except in their own minds. But you and Lily apparently will believe anything.

<quoted text>I HAVE blamed both parties...repeatedly. But I never hear a peep about blaming anyone else but republicans on your side.The stimulus was a failure with very little to show for what it is costing the taxpayers and the minimal amount of jobs that resulted.Obamacare and Solyndra are two other failed biggies.So why won't Obamacare kick in until after the president is - or isn't - reelected? Maybe I missed your answer.

<quoted text>Try to understand, it was in reply to one of your nonsensical posts. No spin on it.If you want to spit or piss into the wind, go right ahead.If you want to say something like fighting the trend, say it. Leave the fish out of it.

<quoted text>Try to understand, it was in reply to one of your nonsensical posts. No spin on it.If you want to spit or piss into the wind, go right ahead.If you want to say something like fighting the trend, say it. Leave the fish out of it.

Too much spin. Can anyone else translate this for me?

However,[just FYI], swimming upstream is a commonly used colloquialism. It means going against the trend or flow.

<quoted text>Jesus Camp was the usual Hollyweird liberal spin of reality that doesn't exist except in their own minds. But you and Lily apparently will believe anything.Is analytical thinking even part of both of your genetic makeup?

<quoted text>Oh please, all you do is blame Obama.The ACA is a large complicated reform.It has to be implemented in steps.Some things are in place. Some, like the exchanges, kick in later.But am sure it must be some evil plan like you say.

Yeah, guess Obama took down the plaque on the president's desk in the Oval Office that once said, "The buck stops here."

He probably changed it out to read, "The buck stops anywhere but here."

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